Mining Incidents

Rogers Group IncController

MSHA Controller ID: M00452
Fatalities
3
Total incidents
417
Mines on record
81
Period

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 54 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 48 non-fatal
  • ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS117 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON84 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)62 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
1
2025
14
2024
21
2023
10 (1f)
2022
13
2021
16
2020
13
2019
24 (1f)
2018
19
2017
13
2016
13
2015
23
2014
17
2013
11
2012
9
2011
6
2010
17
2009
10
2008
15
2007
15
2006
20
2005
27 (1f)
2004
18
2003
14
2002
11
2001
17
2000
30

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

3 recorded
Contact with electrical current

An employee operating a Caterpillar 770 haul truck hauling material to repair the road to the stripping area. As the employee dumped the load the bed contacted overhead powerlines. The employee exited the truck to extinguish a fire. Upon returning to the truck EE reached for the handrail. When EE touched the truck, EE was electrocuted.

Fall from machine

Miner was using a man lift basket to observe feed to cone crusher at a height of 28 feet. The miner was wearing fall protection harness and a retractable lanyard but was not secured/tied off to the man lift basket. The miner was ejected from the man lift basket to the surface below.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Disassembling a crushing plant. two employees were attempting to remove the motor that drove the hazmac crusher by using a boom truck. The motor became stuck on the motor mount bolts that had been cut off using a torch. The employees then tried to pry it from its stuck position when it freed and came forward.